Categories of lusers

With respect to interaction with computers, there are engineers, programmers (hackers), and people who should just stay away.

It takes engineering to make high-reliability software, like what you’d want to operate the engine of your car.  It takes an aptitude for programming to use scripting tools to get quick and easy solutions to problems, and it takes yet another kind of mindset to just keep clicking the mouse and watching the hourglass in rote patterns.

 

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